The Erasure of North Hollow, Kirsten Taylor

A clutch of native grasses bound between two curved timbers evokes the plow and yoke, which Kirsten Taylor reminds us were “the tools used to bend so much of nature to human desire.” No longer vibrant, upright, and windswept as they once stood in North Hollow—the area plowed and replanted with saplings to become Marvin Grove—Taylor’s grasses are dry, delicate, and turned sideways as reminders of the threats to the “last remaining tallgrass prairies which exist behind fences, closed in by property lines.”